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BMW X5 Knock-off

posted on 2009-02-13 - amd.im/X3ku

Saw a BYD CEO cruising in Shenzhen with fake BMW X5 badges.

Those crazy Chinese car knock-offs...

Moonset over Shenzhen

posted on 2009-02-11 - amd.im/T4Ol

Shot a picture of the moon setting over Shenzhen this morning... Smoggy, smoggy morning...

I bought a Gorillapod knock-off and remote shutter release over the weekend, and when I saw the pretty color of the moon over a sky scraper this morning, I had a use for it.

I've never shot in so much haze before, so the photo turned out different that I had hoped it would, but I still thought I'd post something up.

photogriffy updated to v0.2

posted on 2009-02-10 - amd.im/pEw5

photogriffy.net was upgraged to v0.2, this is a pretty major update. I've changed the backend to be based entirely on the Flickr API. I was able to crank it all out with rails and the flickraw gem over the course of a few hours. There are still a lot of features I want to add and a bunch of formatting to do, but the site works as it stands. Rails truly is an amazing prototyping framework.

This is part of a larger update to the way I post my photos to the web. It's getting a bit scattered with some photos posted to AMDavidson.com, some to AMDavidson.me, some to Flickr, and even a few to Twitpic with very little planning or organization.

So, I'm now working towards putting everything on Flickr and then basing my other websites on that content so the content is unified between the sites and doesn't require bouncing around the web to places unknown to see it all.

Archimede Pilot Timelapse

posted on 2009-02-08 - amd.im/nJVP

I was bored in my hotel room in Shenzhen so I did a time lapse video of my watch. It came out kinda interesting, so I'm posting it here. The panning is kinda neat, but in all honesty... it was an artifact of me not using a tripod and not using mirror lockup to prevent camera vibrations... My 40D just kinda shook itself along, but it makes it a bit more interesting. The video is hosted on Vimeo, and if you click here you can see the video in HD.

Archimede Pilot T

posted on 2009-02-04 - amd.im/EdTd

Here is a shot of my new birthday present!

It's pretty sweet... Check it out!

An Archimede Pilot T watch... Automatic, Titanium, German, Obscure, Awesome, not much else I could ask for.

Thanks Naomi!

github? we don't need no stinking github...

posted on 2009-02-02 - amd.im/L4yz

I use git for all my projects... I love the ability to commit changes when I'm on an airplane or stuck somewhere without internet access. However, I still like to be able to push my git project to a remote server for backup and accessibility, and I'm not going to pay for github. Don't get me wrong, github is fine for public projects and collaborative development, but for my personal development stuff, it's an unnecessary expense.

Well, I always forget how to setup a remote master so that I can push and pull and keep a backup on a remote server. Here are my quick notes... for a detailed explanation see Tim Lucas's tutorial.

On server:

mkdir /srv/git/whatever
git init /srv/git/whatever

On local machine:

git remote add origin ssh://host/srv/git/whatever
git push origin master

And you're all set!